Shapurji Saklatvala; Sarah Saklatvala (née Marsh) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Shapurji Saklatvala; Sarah Saklatvala (née Marsh) NPG x122067

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Born into a wealthy Bombay family, Saklatvala was reluctant to join the family business, choosing instead to be a welfare worker in the slums of Bombay. After concerns were raised by the Raj about his outspoken nationalism, his family sent him to oversee the Tata offices in Manchester. Before departing he contracted malaria. He recovered at a health spa in Britain where he met Sally Marsh, a hotel waitress who he married in 1907. The couple moved to London where he joined the Labour party... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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